Energy

Smart Grid

Lithuania’s Ignitis Grupė Secures €110 Million Loan for Smart Meters and IT

In Lithuania, energy company Ignitis Grupė has secured a €110 million loan from the European Investment Bank to support its smart metering systems and IT solu…

Energy Technology

Fincantieri to Build Hydrogen Hybrid Ship

Italian shipbuilding firm Fincantieri has started building a hybrid ship that will use hydrogen and storage systems along with diesel fuel.

Oil & Gas Trade

BPCL Pays for Defaulting Videocon in Brazil Oil Block

State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd has been forced to pay for its defaulting partner Videocon Industries Ltd after it had relied on a rarely used model to ac…

Clean Energy Transition

Renewables May See a Boost Under a Biden Presidency – Report

In the market analyst’s view, the Democratic nominee has a 70% probability of winning the November 3 election.

United Arab Emirates

UAE Re-Elected to IAEA's Board Of Governors

The UAE has been re-elected to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, for the period 2020 to 2022 during this year’s annual Ge…

Oil Shale

U.S. Shale Producers Devon Energy , WPX Energy in Merger Talks

U.S. shale producer Devon Energy Corp is in talks to acquire rival WPX Energy Inc in an all-stock transaction that would create a combined company worth around…

Delta Energy Storage Solution Helps Taipower to Stabilize Kinmen’s Independent Grid

Delta's energy storage solution was successfully introduced at Taipower's Kinmen Xiaxing Power Plant, which is currently the largest energy storage system owned…

Ultra-high voltage grid

China's MILLION VOLT Energy Superhighway

​Smart grids delivering renewable energy across continents will be a crucial advance, but they will also require extremely long electricity transmission distan…

Electricity Transmission

The World's First New Energy Channel: 72 Days into Operation to Reduce Coal Consumption by 900,000 Tons

It is understood that the low-end DC system of the project has been in continuous live operation for 72 days.

Microgrid

PXiSE, Toshiba Form Alliance Targeting Japanese Microgrid Market

PXiSE Energy Solutions and Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions have formed an alliance to develop microgrids, with an initial focus on Japan and growing to the g…

Geothermal Power Plant

Geothermal Energy to Replace Natural Gas at Hospital in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Dutch news portal Gawalo has published an interesting article about efforts by a hospital in the Netherlands looking at replacing natural gas with geothermal en…

Solar Power Panel

BURKINA FASO: A Solar Panel Production Plant Built in Ouagadougou

Burkina Faso has just set up a solar panel production unit. Called "Faso Energy", the facility located in the capital Ouagadougou is capable of producing 30 MW …

Wind Farm

Vestas Wins 144MW Greek Prize

Vestas has won a turbine order totalling 144MW with Terna Energy for the Karystia wind farm in Greece.

Hydropower Plant

Nigeria: FG Sinks $5.8bn in Mambilla Hydropower Project

The Federal Government has said that it has so far spent about $5.8 billion on the 40-year-old Mambilla Hydroelectric Power project.

India

India's Govt May Impose Customs Duty on Solar Equipment Soon

The ministry of new and renewable energy has asked solar manufacturers to provide a list of machinery and capital goods that should be exempted from basic custo…